Publication Details
Morris, L.
(2009).
The economics of charity – Who cares?.
Third Sector Review, 15 (1), 31-45.
Abstract
The current Australian human services charity profile is as a socially moral, not-for-profit business which generates a surplus; a community organization advocating on behalf of disadvantaged people and communities. This description is becoming harder to reconcile with the reality of relativist values-based care work carried out on a daily basis by tens of thousands of women for meagre wages in poor employment conditions. This paper argues that human services charity work is gendered and combined with its religious, social and ethical underpinnings, oppressive employment conditions and practices are facilitated that are flourishing in the present economic rationalist/neoliberal environment.
Keywords
peer-reviewed, charity, gender, discrimination, caring, ethics, employment
